Faith is the union of God and the soul.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.